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[[Image:Grace Kids.jpg|thumb|left|200px|left|Myself (back right) Me and my siblings about the time we got our TI-99/4A (L to R: Cammy, Kelly, Ken, Cari, Kristi, Clayton)]]
Our little TI-99/4A was the best system amongst all my friends up until one of them was able to get a Nintento NES. However, most of them still agreed even then that the TI held its own even against a purely gaming machine. We honestly used it mostly to play games.
We eventually dabbled in programming a little bit. When I say we dabbled in programming, we didn't actually create our own programs. We typed programs from some of the manuals that came with the computer itself (I remember one called Bo Jangles or something like that) and then we bought Compute!s First Book of TI-99/4A Games and typed in every singe basic program from that book, recording them onto cassette tapes for later play. We didn't own extended basic, so those games always remained a mystery to us. That was a lot of fun, but took an excruciating amount of time since we were all young, and none of use us knew how to type. I remember it was usually myself and my brother Ken. We took turns, one reading the instructions while the other typed. It took us forever to get one program typed and saved, and then usually several more hours to days troubleshooting lines we mistyped. As my infobox states at the beginning of this article, I am a pharmacist. So how did I get involved in making a TI-99/4A website? I've always been a huge fan of technology. I've built multiple computers for myself and others, installed and used multiple operating systems just to say I did, ran my own web server for several years (until I moved and my new ISP doesn't allow for a static IP address), and am the go-to tech guy for friends, family, and coworkers. About the year 2010, I created my very first TI-99/4A website. It was a very simple html only site with no videos or images or anything.
